Transition Movement Grants
January 24, 2023
Building visionary and resilient communities for a new energy economy
The Just Transition Fund is on a mission to create economic opportunity for the frontline communities and workers hardest hit by the transition away from coal. As an innovative hybrid initiative—part grantmaker, part catalyst—we provide investments to help communities create 21st century jobs, and technical assistance to empower local leaders to act. Our goal is to advance economic solutions that are equitable and inclusive, diverse, and low-carbon.
In 2018, the Just Transition Fund awarded $1,579,000 in grants. Our grantmaking prioritized support for community-based organizations that are firmly rooted in the priority regions in which we work and embrace the goals of the Fund. 2018 priority regions include: Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia, Southern West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, Arizona (Four Corners Region), Colorado (Western Slope), Montana (Colstrip), Central Minnesota, Ohio (Ohio River Valley), and Southern Illinois. Our grants supported three components of transition:
• COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Through our direct investments, we helped support clean energy entrepreneurs and connect rural with larger urban markets. We also invested in workforce training programs to help create high-road jobs and prepare workers and communities for the jobs of tomorrow.
• POLICY
Our direct investments supported state and federal activity that creates economic opportunity in key sectors. These sectors include clean energy and reclamation/ remediation, which provide significant economic development potential and, in the case of reclamation, immediate job creation. During this time of federal uncertainty, we’ve helped community leaders pass key state policies that create new funding pools for communities in transition.
• CAPACITY BUILDING
Through our direct investments, we’ve helped communities get started and launch inclusive, community-driven stakeholder processes.
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As the energy transition accelerates, it is our responsibility, it is our opportunity, to ensure that in addition to contributing to a healthy planet by replacing fossil fuels with clean energy sources, this is accomplished in a just and equitable manner providing prosperity for all.
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